WASHINGTON (AP) — In the waning days of the Biden administration, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended his agency’s work to tamp down border-crossing numbers and argued ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is talking about what went wrong, and making a case for what went right on his watch during the Biden administration. Mayorkas will step down next ...

Mayorkas' time as DHS secretary saw one crisis ... with Federal Government Leaders and National Fire Service Leader Testimony, at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Md., ...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas argued that his administration “quickly” took executive action to stem illegal immigration, despite that order only coming after years into the ...

Mr. Mayorkas, known to employees as “Santo Mayorkas” for his frequent vacation indulgences, announced the extra time off in a departing message this week to his workforce.

Amna Nawaz discussed more with outgoing Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Immigration has been a white-hot political issue for years and helped propel Donald Trump back into the White House.

The Biden administration on Friday announced the extension of deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals from a slew of countries, just weeks before the incoming Trump ...

“Right now, the situation is quite dire,” Mayorkas said Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Mayorkas is in his final weeks as DHS secretary before Biden leaves office. The fires around Los Angeles ...

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